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Taking Submissions: Historic Fantasy

April 30, 2020

Deadline: April 30th, 2020
Payment: 8 cents per word
Theme: Stories that offer a riveting reimagining of a historic time period imbued with fantasy and magic.

What we want

Five original, previously unpublished, literary fantasy short stories between 1000 to 5000 words for our Historic Fantasy Anthology. We are seeking stories that offer a riveting reimagining of a historic time period imbued with fantasy and magic. As always, we prefer stories with a literary quality built upon strong characters, spellbinding language, and believable world-building.

If your work is accepted, we will ask you to send us an author’s note (around few hundred words) related to the story that we can include in the anthology.

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Deadline

We will be accepting submissions until April 30, 2020, or whenever the anthology is filled. The anthology will be published within ninety (90) thereafter.

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Response Time, Simultaneous, & Multiple Submissions

We will do our best to respond to your submission within one month. Please feel free to check-in with us if you have not heard back after four weeks.

We allow simultaneous submissions but ask that you notify us as soon as your story is accepted elsewhere

We do not accept multiple submissions. You are welcome to submit again as soon once we have responded to a previous submission.

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Editing, Rights, & Payment

If we accept your work, we may request minor line-edits for grammar, punctuation and clarity. You will have the opportunity to review and discuss all edits with us before the final version of your work is published.

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We ask for First World Serial Rights, First World Electronic Rights and Exclusive Rights for ninety (90) days from the date of first publication. We also ask for Non-exclusive Anthology Rights. Lastly, we ask for Non-exclusive Audio Rights to publish an audio podcast of the work if we so choose. Stories will be published on both our website and as part of the anthology.

The author retains copyright and ownership of the work. All rights revert back to the author after ninety (90) days.

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We pay $0.08 per word. Payment will be made through PayPal (preferred) or mailed by check, upon publication. We will also send you a digital copy of the final anthology.

All published works will be credited with a byline, and contributors will be featured on our Contributors Page.

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Formatting and Submitting

All fiction manuscripts should be in standard manuscript formatMost important: double-spaced, 12 pt standard font (e.g. Times, Arial, Courier), and page numbers.

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Please email all submissions to [email protected] and include in the subject field the word “Anthology,” the name of the piece, and approximate word count. Example: Anthology – “The Loyal Samurai” (6000). Please include your work as a separate attachment (.DOC, .DOCX., .RTF) to the email.

There is no submission fee to submit to our Historic Fantasy Anthology!

We look forward to receiving your work!

Via: 87 Bedford.

Details

Date:
April 30, 2020